Improved apparatus for swaging- and welding toe-calks to horse-shoes



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ALMONA COOK, 0F HILLSDALE, MICHIGAN a` Leners ramt No. 89,384, dated .4pm 27, 1869.

IIMPROVED APPARATUS FOR SWAGI-IN'G- AND WELDING- TCE-CALKS TO HORSE-SHOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and. making part of the same.

To all 'whom it may concern Beit known that I, ALMoN 000K, of Hillsdale, in

in which- Figure l is a transverse vertical section of my improved machine in the line :v x, iig. 2; and Figure 2, a front elevation of the same, partly in section, to show the construction of the mould'.

Similar letters of reference indicate. corresponding parts.

This invention has for its object to provide a ma chine by which the toe-calli of horse-shoes can be shaped and welded to the shoe-plate in the most accurate and expeditious manner; and

.lhe' invention .consists in the construction of the mould for shaping the toe-calks, and in the combination therewith'oi the devices by which the calk is welded to the shoe.

In the drawings- A is an upright frame or post firmly secured to the bed-plate B; and

G is a` drop or pressure-bar sliding in guides D, aixed to, or formed upon the front of the upright'A.

lh`e\d rop is operated by a lever, E, having its fulcrum at al in the upper end of the drop, and with its short arm pivoted to the upper end of an upright, G.

H is a bar or holder, by which the horse-shoe is held against the base of the upright A during the process of welding. l This holder moves in suitable guides transversely of the. bed-plate, and is operated by means of the bent lever I, having its fulcrum in the arm b project- 4ing from the edge of the bed-plate B.

One arm of this lever is pivoted to the outer end of the vholder, and its other arm extending beneath the bed-plate, is attached, in any suitable manner, to the lower end of a rod or bar, J, which passes longitudinally through the upright A, and is secured at.its upper en d to the drop, as shown at c, lig. l.

K is the mould, in the formv of -a horse-shoe toecalk formed in the bed-plate at the base of the upright A, and in line with the drop and holder.

If preferred, it may be made of a separate piece of metal and let into the bed-plate, in which case it can be easily removed `when desired.

The operation is as follows:

The horse-shoe blank having thetoe-calk slightly affixed to it in the usual manner, and heatedto a welding-heat, is placed upon the bed-plate with the toe-calli in the mould and with its ends extending upon each side of the holder. The lever E is then operated to bring the drop down upon the shoe, for the purpose of welding the calk to same, and at the same time shaping the latter by forcing it into the mould K.

The holder H prevents the metal from being spread laterally to widen the shoe under the blows of' the drop.

d d are perforations in the bed-plate B to permit the escape of air from the mould during the process of welding.

By means of my improved machine, the toe-calks can be welded to horse-.shoesin the most expeditious manner and with great economy of labor.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combination of the drop C and holder H with the mould K, all arranged and operating as described, for the purpose of welding the toe-calk to ahorseshoe, and shaping the same at one operation, substantially as herein shown and described.

ALMON oooK.

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Witnesses:

JOEL WHIPPLE, F. F. HOPKINS. 

